Seminar On Hunger

News reports of famine and mass starvation keep reminding us that world hunger continues. Despite improvements in agricultural research, equipment and technologies, the hunger increases.

Never has there been such an awareness and response to hunger. Today more people are helping through gifts of money, working in soup kitchens and bringing their skills and caring to the victims of hunger.

Yet world hunger worsens. Over half a billion persons are now living and, very likely, will die hungry. I know that none of us can do all that is needed to eliminate this problem, but does that exempt us from doing whatever we can to lessen hunger?

A seminar, "Outreach on Hunger," at Messiah College, Grantham, Cumberland County, May 18-20, will probe and discuss what ordinary people can do to help; and how private citizens can influence public policies to reduce hunger.

The seminar is sponsored by Bread for the World, an interdenominational organization whose members, individually, advocate the cause of hungry people to our national elected representatives and government decision makers.